Design and Technology Technician
Littleover Community School, Derby, Derbyshire, DE23 4BZ13 days remaining to apply
Start date details
4th September 2025, subject to pre-employment checks
Closing date
30 June 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
17 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Subject
- Design and technology
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 per week: 8.00am to 4.00pm Monday to Thursday/ 8.00am - 3.30pm Friday
Contract type
- Fixed term - Maternity Cover Contract until 23rd October 2026 (approx.) - Maternity or parental leave cover
Full-time equivalent salary
- £26,835 - £28,624
Pay scale
- Actual: Grade E SCP 10-14 £21,929 - £23,391
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are seeking to appoint a talented, enthusiastic and suitably qualified individual to join the LCS team as a Design and Technology Technician on a Maternity Cover contract. The successful candidate will be flexible, well organised and professional with good communication skills and is able to use their own initiative but also to work well as part of a team. The position will provide support for the Technology Department, primarily in Technology/Resistant Materials workshops, including assisting class teachers at the beginning and end of practical sessions.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.
A Health & Safety Certificate and First Aid Certificate are desirable but not essential as appropriate training will be given.
What the school offers its staff
As a school, we are committed to continuous improvement so that we can continue to evolve to match the changing needs of our students, parents and carers, staff and wider school community. We are keen to utilise the latest thinking and technologies to ensure all our students are best equipped to achieve success in the future.
There are an extensive range of benefits that are available to you as an employee of Littleover Community School.
For your health and wellbeing there is access to a free on site gym and an employee assistance programme.
You will have access to the Derby City Council Rewards platform, which hosts a wide range of benefits such as the Cycle2Work scheme, benefits and offers at an extensive network of retailers, Tusker Car Lease Scheme and more!
These benefits run alongside other benefits such as access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on your role), free on-site car parking, free annual flu jab and a friendly, supportive working environment!
Commitment to safeguarding
Littleover Community School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of a satisfactory enhanced level DBS disclosure with a children’s barred list check, two satisfactory references and successful completion of vetting procedures.
In accordance with the statutory guidance, Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), an online search will be conducted as part of due diligence on shortlisted candidates.
Copies of our Safeguarding Policy, along with other school policies, are available at:
https://www.littleover.derby.sch.uk/information.php#policies
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to jobs@littleover.derby.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
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If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Littleover Community School
- School type
- Local authority maintained school, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1808 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Littleover Community School website
- Email address
- jobs@littleover.derby.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01332 513219
Littleover Community School is a Derby City Council, 11-18 co-educational, comprehensive school. Our school is situated four miles to the south west of the centre of Derby, in pleasant, spacious grounds and has a proud academic and pastoral record. Many teachers, after thriving here and developing their skills, go on to posts of responsibility here or elsewhere. Others, happy to work in a school which values effective classroom teaching above all else, stay here and contribute hugely over the years.
Arranging a visit to Littleover Community School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email jobs@littleover.derby.sch.uk.
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